What is Nutritional Therapy?

Also called Nutritional or Functional Medicine, nutritional therapy differs greatly from from orthodox medicine or dietetics. This long-standing therapy has evolved over the years into a scientific and comprehensive healthcare system.  It is about investigating and understanding how and why your health has gone wrong or out of balance and addressing the causal factors of health problems, not just treating the symptoms.

Many chronic long term conditions which have not responded to conventional treatment are often the result of underlying biochemical imbalances. These often respond well to professional nutritional therapy

Therapeutic tools a nutritional therapist may use to help clients include:

	Identifying and countering reactions to commonly eaten foods
	Using functional diagnostic tests through professional laboratories
	Improving digestion and the absorption of nutrients
	Correcting nutritional deficiencies or excesses
	Devising individually tailored supplement and dietary regimes
	Encouraging good life-long dietary and lifestyle habits
	Creating personalised weight loss programmes tailored to the needs and lifestyle of every client